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Henry Hudson was a very good navigator and a sailor who named and explored Hudson Bay in America his quest was to find a short cut from Europe to the far east.Hudson was from England,but nothing is known about his life before 1607. On may 1,1607 Hudson,his son and 11 other members sailed from England on the Hopewell.He and his crew went past greenland toward the north pole.They were working for an England trading company and were hoping to find a quicker way to get from England To the far east, by way of the artic ocean.In the next two years, he tried twice more to find a "northeast passage" but failed and returned to england. The trading company would not send him on any more explorations.A group of American artists painted landscapes of New York's Hudson River region in the mid-1800's.In 1609 the english sailor Henry Hudson sailed for Dutch.On his final journey from England in 1610,he again headed northwest towards Canada,this time on the ship Discovery.In 1611,after wintering on the shore of James Bay, Hudson wanted to press on to the west, But most of his crew members died.